Tag Archives: Radiation exposure

This Will Still Be True Tomorrow: “Fukushima Ain’t Got the Time for Olympic Games”: Two Texts on Nuclear Disaster and Pandemic via The Asia-Pacific Journal

Posted on 2020/07/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Muto RuikoIntroduced and translated by Norma Field Abstract1The fear of being forgotten that haunts the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster set in quickly in the months following March 11, 2011. The Tokyo Olympics, touted as the “Recovery Olympics,” has served … Continue reading →

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Sailors Run Out Of Options At 9th Circ. In Fukushima Suit via Law360

Posted on 2020/07/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Juan Carlos Rodriguez Law360 (July 1, 2020, 9:23 PM EDT) — U.S. sailors said Wednesday the Supreme Court is the next stop for their $1 billion lawsuit against General Electric Co. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. over alleged radiation injuries … Continue reading →

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Invisible Fallout via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/06/22 by nfield

New film helps us find it, measure it and understand it By Linda Pentz Gunter There are many ways to teach people about radiation. But if you want to make that lesson accessible, compelling and even moving, then this film … Continue reading →

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To Show Fukushima Crops are Safe, an Agency Made a Book Out of Rice Paper Grown There via Adweek

Posted on 2020/06/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Sara Spary Serviceplan created the project for a company whose sensors have shown the safety of decontaminated fields […] Nine years later, scientists in the region are fighting to show that crops from decontaminated land are safe to eat. Agency Serviceplan in Germany has … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2020/06/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Trump apparently wants a nuclear test. It could be bad for your health via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani In recent weeks, the Trump administration reportedly discussed the possibility of doing something the United States has not done since … Continue reading →

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Guest Article: Do Emissions from Nuclear Power Plants Cause Cancer? via Irvine Community News & Views

Posted on 2020/05/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Roger Johnson While we agonize over the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps it is also appropriate to consider another medical enigma which kills far more.  Cancer is the number one killer in California.  This year, cancer deaths are expected to exceed 60,000 … Continue reading →

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GE, Tokyo Power Company Win Appeal Over Fukushima Meltdown via Bloomberg

Posted on 2020/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japanese law on liability applied to the case Service members should pursue claims in Japan General Electric Co. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. don’t have to face claims filed by U.S. service members over the Fukushima nuclear meltdown because Japanese law … Continue reading →

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Fire at Shuttered Dutch Nuclear Plant; No Radiation Risk via The New York Times

Posted on 2020/05/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A fire broke out Thursday at a decommissioned nuclear power plant in the central Netherlands. An emergency services spokesman said the blaze was quickly brought under control and there was no danger of radioactive radiation. “There … Continue reading →

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WATCH GERMANY BLOW UP TWO NUCLEAR COOLING TOWERS AS MINISTER SAYS ‘THE FUTURE LIES IN RENEWABLE ENERGIES’ via Newsweek

Posted on 2020/05/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Drone footage shows the moment when two massive cooling towers at a former nuclear power plant in Germany were demolished in a controlled explosion. […] According to EnBW, the land will soon be used by TransnetBW, a subsidiary managing the state’s electricity … Continue reading →

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COVID19: What Japan Failed to Learn from Fukushima via Tokyo Review

Posted on 2020/05/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Michael Larson […] However, perhaps the most worrying parallel between these crises is the way political leaders have stumbled into the same communication and policy missteps as their predecessors. Understanding the connection between the mistakes made a decade ago and … Continue reading →

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